Claim
Since then, Bolivia retains the policy of state territorial claim of a sovereign outlet to the Pacific Ocean. As part of this policy, the national coat of arms shows 10 stars, 9 of the current departments, plus the Bolivian coast.
The internal communications of the armed forces carried the slogan in the footnotes: "The sea is our right. To recover it is a must."
Also in Santa Cruz, for choosing beauty contests, as well as Miss Santa Cruz, Miss Litoral.
Read more about this topic: Litoral Department
Famous quotes containing the word claim:
“The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.”
—Patricia Meyer Spacks (b. 1929)
“Some day I’ll claim to you how all used up
I am because of you but in the meantime the ride
Continues. Everyone is along for the ride,
It seems. Besides, what else is there?”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“It matters little comparatively whether the fields fill the farmer’s barn. The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but his last fruits also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)